I cut into my food and said nothing.
Solomon let the silence sit for a while the way he always did. Outside the restaurant the lunch crowd was moving along the pavement and the city was going about its business and I was sitting across from a man who had known me long enough to see things I would have preferred he didn't see.
"The objection to the valuation expert will be overruled," I said. "The judge will grant the request and we move into the assessment phase. After that the other side runs out of arguments."
"And then the case is over."
"And then the case is over," I said.
Solomon looked at me for a moment. "And what happens after the case is over?"
I looked back at him. "I start the next one."
He nodded like I had confirmed something he already knew and went back to his food an
